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  South Western Ghats montane rain forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Western Ghats montane rain forests are an ecoregion of southern India, covering the southern portion of the Western Ghats range in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, at elevations over 1000 meters.
The South Western Ghats are the wettest portion of peninsular India, and are surrounded by drier ecoregions to the east and north.
The rare and endemic Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) is limited to a 400 km band of shola-grassland mosaic, from the Nilgiri Hills in the north to the Ashambu Hills in the south.
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 South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southern India.
The forests of Wayanad in northern Kerala mark the transition to the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the north.
To the east, the ecoregion transitions to the South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests ecoregion in the drier rain shadow of the Western Ghats.
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 South India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
South of the Satpuras, at the center of the peninsula, is the Deccan plateau, defined by the Western Ghats mountain range, which runs along the western edge of the peninsula, and the Eastern Ghats along the eastern edge.
The Western Ghats catch the monsoon winds, and the region is rainy and densely forested.
The southeastern peninsula, south of the Krishna river and its tributary the Tungabhadra, was known to Europeans as the Carnatic.
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 Everything about South India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is bounded in the west by the Western Ghats and in the east by the Eastern Ghats.
It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats to the east, the Nilgiris in the south and the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north.
Tamil is the main language of the country to the south of the plateau, and Malayalam that of the hills and coast to the south-west.
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 South India - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Geographically, South India traditionally includes the entire Indian Peninsula south of the Satpura and Vindhya ranges and Narmada River, encompassing the Deccan plateau (from the Sanskrit word dakshina, meaning south), the Eastern and Western Ghats, and the coasts between the Ghats and the sea.
South Indian men traditionally wear a kind of sarong, which could be either a white dhoti or a colourful lungi with typical batik patterns.
The South Indian weltanschauung is celebrated in the elaborate dance forms of South India, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniaattam which literally translates as ‘the dance of the enchantress’.
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 South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, also known as tropical rain forests, are a tropical and subtropical biome....
To the west, the Malabar Coast moist forests The malabar coast moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southwestern india....
To the east, the ecoregion transitions to the South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests The south deccan plateau dry deciduous forests is an ecoregion of southern india....
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 The Nilgiris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests lie between 250 and 1000 meters elevation.
These forests are dominated by a diverse assemblage of trees, many of whom are deciduous during the winter and spring dry season.
The entire range, together with portions of the Western Ghats to the northwest and southwest, was included in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in 1986, India's first biosphere reserve.
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 South India : search word
South India is a vast triangular peninsula, bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea, and on the east by the Bay of Bengal.
South Indians are racially, linguistically and culturally different from their North Indian compatriots although their cultures have influenced each other at various points in history.
Mattancherry Palace - temple courtyard in Kerala, South India Whether or not the existing proto Dravidian culture was supplanted by invading Aryan nomads during the twilight of the Indus Valley Civilization or whether they simply coexisted and eventually merged to form another culture is a subject of heated debate to this day.
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 Kerala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To its east and northeast, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; to its west and south lie the Indian Ocean islands of Lakshadweep and the Maldives, respectively.
Kerala’s western coastal belt is relatively flat, and is crisscrossed by a network of interconnected brackish canals, lakes, estuaries, and rivers known as the Kerala Backwaters.
Its 9,400 km² of forests include tropical wet evergreen and semi-evergreen forests (lower and middle elevations — 3,470 km²), tropical moist and dry deciduous forests (mid-elevations — 4,100 km² and 100 km², respectively), and montane subtropical and temperate (shola) forests (highest elevations — 100 km²).
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Malabar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Malabar is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, and comprising the northern half of the state of Kerala.
The Malabar Coast, in historical contexts, refers to India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
Geographically, the Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, comprises the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
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 South Western Ghats montane rain forests: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The South Western Ghats montane rain forests are an ecoregion An ecoregion is "a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities."...
They are cooler and wetter than the lower-elevation South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests The south western ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southern india....
Solomon Islands rain forests The solomon islands rain forests are a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion, also known as a tropical rainforest....
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 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- South Western Ghats montane rain forests (IM0151)
The South Western Ghats Montane Rain Forests [IM0151] are the most species-rich ecoregion in the Deccan Peninsula.
The montane evergreen forests are diverse, multistoried, and rich in epiphytes, with a low canopy at 15 to 20 m (Puri et al.
We used the 1,000-m contour from a DEM and MacKinnon's (1997) map of original vegetation to define the boundary between the montane rain forests and moist deciduous forests.
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 Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are found in a belt around the equator and in the humid subtropics, and are characterized by warm, humid climates with high year-round rainfall.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa), Indomalaya (parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia), the Neotropic (northern South America and Central America), Australasia (eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia), and Oceania (the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean).
Trinidad and Tobago moist forests (Trinidad and Tobago)
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 Western Ghats - TheBestLinks.com - Arabian Sea, Amphibian, Fish, India, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Smaller ranges, including the Nilgiri Hills of northwestern Tamil Nadu and Biligirirangans southeast of Madras in Karnataka, meet the Shevaroys (Servarayan range) and Tirumala range farther east, linking the Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats.
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 Eastern Himalayas - Wild India
Although all Himalayan forests lie well north of the Tropic of Cancer, and some of them are at altitudes of 1780 to 3500 metres (rather akin to temperate forests in physiognomy and structure), they can be considered tropical forests since they occur largely within the climatic tropics.
It is believed that forest cover in the Eastern Himalayas has dwindled from 340,000 km2, to 110,000 km2, with a mere 53,000 km2 of primary forests.
Nearly 50% of the lizards of India are endemic with a high degree of endemicity in the Western Ghats (Table: Endemic species of animals).
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 South India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As a linguistic-cultural and political region, South India consists of the four south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry & Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Diversity of South India and tolerance of its inhabitants are also reflected on the political scene.
South India was also home to the political vision of Dravida Nadu.
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 Malabar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Malabar Coast is an historic name for India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the Malabar coast cities are very cosmopolitan, and were home to some of the first groups of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in India.
The Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, is the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
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 India, indias.com, Incredible India, Land for all seasons, India Travel, India tourism, indian hotels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Several times, South Indian kings were expelled from the island by Sinhalese rulers from the South; the most famous story is that of the victory of the Sinhalese prince Dutugemunu over the Tamil king Elara of Anuradhapura in 161 B.C.E. Over the centuries, several Sinhalese kingdoms with different capitals existed, often simultaneously.
The north and east are considerably drier, lying in the rain shadow of the central highlands.
The Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion, which, like the neighbouring East Deccan dry evergreen forests of India's Coromandel Coast, is characterized by evergreen trees, rather than the dry-season deciduous trees that predominate in most other tropical dry broadleaf forests.
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 Nageia Did You Mean nageia
Unlike Podocarpus, the scales do not become fleshy, but the seed coat develops into a drupe-like fleshy covering 1-2 cm diameter, which attracts birds, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings.
Nageia can be found in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests of Asia and Australasia, from Assam in eastern India across Southeast Asia to southern China and southern Japan, and across Malesia, from the Malay peninsula across Indonesia to New Guinea and New Britain.
wallichiana is found in the South Western Ghats montane rain forests of India's southern tip, where it is thought to be a relatively recent colonist in biogeographical terms.
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 Equal Earth - Paintings - Indo-Malayan
What is left are small patches of forest that are threatened by logging and clearing for agriculture, even in areas that are officially protected.
This ecoregion's forests are in critical condition; less than one third of the native forests remain.
Although the soils are nutrient-poor and not terribly good for growing crops, large-scale plantations of coconuts and pineapple have replaced native forests in some parts of the region.
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 WWF - Southwestern Ghats Moist Forests - A Global 200 Ecoregion
Every 12 years the Ghats mountaintops become covered with the blue flowers of a plant called Neelakurunji.
This Global 200 ecoregion is made up of these terrestrial ecoregions: South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests; South Western Ghats montane rain forests.
The Southwestern Ghats occupy just 5 percent of India's land area, but they contain a large proportion of the country's plant and animal species.
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 Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests are in a belt around the equator and the humid subtropics and are characterized by humid climates with high year-round rainfall.
Tropical subtropical regions with lower rainfall or distinct and dry seasons are home to Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests and Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests.
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests are in several terrestrial ecozones including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa) Indomalaya (parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia) the Neotropic (northern South America and Central America) Australasia (eastern Indonesia New Guinea and northern Australia) and Oceania (the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean).
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This species of frog is most closely related to species found in the Seychelles.
Some Western Ghats streams are home to a freshwater puffer fish Tetraodon travancoria apart from marine forms like Chelonodon patoca (Buchanan-Hamilton,1822).
It also harbors the highest levels of endemism: 35 % of the plants, 42 % of the fishes, 48 % of the reptiles, and 75 % of the amphibians that live in this ecoregion are endemic.
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 Ecoregions of India - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This article has been tagged since January 2006.
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India, Bangladesh)
Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (India, Nepal)
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